FG Moves To End Long-Distance Livestock Transportation

The Federal Government has moved to end the transportation of live animals over hundreds of kilometres for slaughter, saying the practice is contributing to huge economic losses, wasting valuable livestock by-products and denying millions of Nigerians employment opportunities.The Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Mukhtar Maiha, said Nigeria could no longer afford a livestock system in which animals were transported over distances of up to 1,200 kilometres before reaching major consumption centres such as Abuja and Lagos.